How a Mai Tai should NOT be and how it should be

El Dorado the Liquid Gold…

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Demerara Rums from Guyana

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Demerara Rums Part One

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Demerara Rums Part Two

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Cachaca and Rhum agricole, what`s the difference?

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Havana Club

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Old New Orleans Cajun Spiced Rum

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St Nicholas Abbey 12 yo

Plantation 3 Stars White Rum

Blackwell Rum

Denizen Rum

Plantation Original Dark Overproof

Tiki Lovers Rum

Tahitian Vanilla Syrup

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Hibiscus Grenadine

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Sugarcane!

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Gomme syrup

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Learn how to easily open a coconut and mix up a tasty Coconaut.

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Aku Aku Drinks

After drinking all those lapu lapu drinks i wrote about in my previous post i`m now gonna make drinks that has the word aku or aku aku in the name and there`s no other reason for doing that other than tiki drink research..and because i like rum drinks.

In my previous post about lapu lapu [...]

SWIZZLES part 4 – Swordfighter Swizzle

So what do you do on a hot evening when you´re thirsty? well, if you don´t know what to mix you start digging around in either your cocktail books or on the web.

So digging around trying to find something cool to mix up on a hot evening like this i stumbled over the [...]

LEMON HART TO EUROPE

Yes folks, the Lemon Hart rum including the 151 will be sold in Europe by Distillerie Kammer-Kirsch who are the exclusive distributor for Lemon Hart in Germany and Austria who will start with the reintroduction of the product latest beginning of August.

That was some great news me thinks!

Lemon Hart 151 (75.5% vol.) [...]

DEMERARA RUM FROM GUYANA

Demerera – the word alone is intoxicating…and once tasted, how can one get along without that deep Demerara flavor? – dark and rich, redolent of molasses and burnt sugar.

So it is – at least for me – and i believe i`m not the only one..demerara rum really does have a deep flavor that [...]

A MONTH OF MAI TAIS – Exploring the rums, one Mai Tai at a time

A MAI TAI A DAY…

As a part of the Mai Tai rum combo cocktail-blog coverage i have made a couple different Mai Tais, mostly from demerara rums. I know the Mai Tai had dark Jamaican rum first, and then was paired with a Martiniqan rum, but i think demerara rums makes awesome Mai [...]

DEMERARA RUMS Part Two

In this second part of my series on demerara rums i try out i`m going to write about Banks XM, OVD -  Old Vatted Demerara and Samaroli Port Morant 1990.

BANKS XM ROYAL EXTRA MATURE DEMERARA RUM

Since the 1840`s, the D’Aguiar family have been in business in Guyana, its for over 150 years, [...]

DEMERARA RUMS part one

I`m on a demerara rum journey.

One of my aims in this life is to try as many demerara rums i can find, but so far i haven`t been able to try that many. Not all from the El Dorado range are yet tasted for instance, and on my list is also Nation demerara 12 [...]

EL DORADO RUM – THE LIQUID GOLD

LIQUID GOLD…

I can`t have a cocktail blog without writing about my favorite rum which is El Dorado…which indeed is a Demerara rum but even more so – its a Guyanese rum, and the only rums distilled in Guyana are those from DDL – the only true Guyanese rums.

In 1992, the company introduced [...]